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Neal McCluskey On January 16, the US Department of Education announced that it will delay the collection of defaulted federal student debt via wage garnishment and retention of federal funds…

Jennifer Huddleston and David Inserra The year 2025 was certainly busy in tech policy, with both positives and negatives. While, of course, there were many concerns about tech and expression…

Stephen Slivinski President Trump thinks he knows best what housing choices you and others should make and he’s not afraid to use the power of the federal government to impose…

Christian Kruse and Norbert Michel Today marks the publication of a new Cato report: The Case for Micro-Offerings. The report recommends creating a micro-offering exemption—an exemption from certain securities regulations…

Chris Edwards Medicaid waste is huge. Officially, the federal-state health program loses 6 percent of benefits to errors and fraud a year, or $37 billion in 2025. But some analysts…

Kayla Susalla Although many states have enacted bail reform policies in the past decade, a recent report from the Bail Project shows that this momentum is waning. Following a spike in crime during the pandemic, many states rushed…

Gabriela Calderon de Burgos Today in the Wall Street Journal, economist Judy Shelton suggests that Latin American countries adopt the US dollar. She weighs in on the pros and cons of…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report offers a stark reminder that US manufacturing continues to struggle. Manufacturing employment fell again in December…

Matthew Cavedon A local St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer, Heather Weyker, claimed to have uncovered a vast interstate sex trafficking conspiracy, which led to the indictment of thirty individuals. But…

Tad DeHaven The federal government is to become the customer, regulator, and partial owner of a defense contractor under a deal announced by the Pentagon this week. When the Trump…